[134430] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN and the RPKI (was Re: AltDB?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Wed Jan 5 23:33:33 2011
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 04:30:45 +0000
In-Reply-To: <m28vyysm3o.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
> actually, the formal rpki-based origin-validation stuff is measured to ta=
ke *less* cpu, a lot less, than ACLs
On the platforms which really matter in terms of rPKI, ACLs are handled in =
hardware, so this is pretty much a wash.=20
Concur on all the other points, however.
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